Senate bet Montaño concedes loss
By Dona Z. Pazzibugan
Independent senatorial candidate retired Major General Ramon Montaño conceded Tuesday, saying the win of candidates from two major political groupings was a “defeat of true democracy.”
Independent senatorial candidate retired Major General Ramon Montaño conceded Tuesday, saying the win of candidates from two major political groupings was a “defeat of true democracy.”
Don’t be too quick to count us out. “Older people have patience, have intelligence and have experience,” senatorial candidate Ernesto Maceda said in a television interview after the host pointed out that he was the oldest among those running for the Senate in the May 13 midterm elections.
A bystander, seeing the candidate wearing a yellow campaign vest at a provincial campaign sortie, remarked: “There goes one of the members of the Cory troops against the coup d’etat.”
Puerto Princesa City Mayor Edward Hagedorn officially kicked off his Senate campaign by going around Manila in a motorcade from his campaign headquarters along Osmeña Highway in Manila to Sto. Niño de Tondo Church.
Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile’s claim in his autobiography that he was ambushed in Wack-Wack Subdivision in Mandaluyong City on Sept. 22, 1972, “defies logic,” according to the former Philippine Constabulary general who investigated Ferdinand Marcos’ justification for placing the Philippines under martial law.
